New note with a question mark in the title silently fails

[will.jennings]

Steps to reproduce

1. Ctrl-O
2. Type “How are you?” into the text entry box.
3. Return.

Expected result

A new note is created with as close a title as the file system allows, or a helpful error message is displayed.

Actual result

Silent failure - no note is created, Open dialog is closed.

Environment

• Operating system: Windows 10 Home

• Obsidian version: 0.6.4

• Using custom CSS: No

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Additional information

Great product, hope this is helpful!

[ryanjamurphy]

I imagine this is the same bug as this:

Note autocreation fails silently if note name contains a forbidden character

Steps to reproduce In some existing note, enter a link to a non-existent note with a forbidden character (e.g. colon) in the name, e.g.: [[Article: Foo]] Then in the preview pane, click the link to that note. (Forbidden characters seem to be as follows *, ", \, /, <, >, :, |, ? — at least, that’s what the pop-up says when you try to manually create a new note containing one of these.) Expected result I’d expect Obsidian to create a new note — ideally I’d expect it to be called Article: Foo,…

According to @WhiteNoise this’ll be fixed in 0.6.5.

[WhiteNoise]

yes, it should be fixed